Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition

Herausgeber: Dodds, Sherril

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook asks how competition affects the presentation and experience of dance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 183mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1315g
• ISBN-13: 9780190639082
• ISBN-10: 0190639083
• Artikelnr.: 52524615

Autorenporträt

Sherril Dodds is Professor of Dance at Temple University. Her research encompasses dance on screen, popular dance, and cultural theory. She is a founding member of the research network PoP MOVES. Her publications include Dance on Screen (Palgrave, 2001), Dancing on the Canon (Palgrave, 2011), and Bodies of Sound (Ashgate, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

* INTRODUCTION
* Competition Culture: Winning and Losing at Dance
* Sherril Dodds
* PART I: Economic and Social Currencies of Competition
* 1. Taking the Cake: Black Dance, Competition, and Value
* Nadine George-Graves
* 2. You've Got to Sell It! Performing on the Dance Competition Stage
* Karen Schupp
* 3. Competitive Capers: Gender, Gentility, and Dancing in Early Modern
England
* Emily Winerock
* 4. Endangered Strangers: Tracking Competition in US Federal Dance
Funding
* Sarah Wilbur
* 5. Marking Your Territory: The Struggle to Work in Flamenco
* Kathy Milazzo
* PART II: Re-Choreographing and Re-Presentation for the Competition
Frame
* 6. Re-appropriating Choreographies of Authenticity in Mexico:
Competitions and The Dance of the Old Men
* Ruth Hellier-Tinoco
* 7. Above and Beyond the Battle: Virtuosity and Excess within
Televised Street Dance Crew Competitions
* Laura Robinson
* 8. Shifting Dynamics: Sean Nós Dancing, Vernacular Expression, and
the Competitive Arena of the Oireachtas
* Catherine E. Foley
* 9. Visible Rhythms: Competition in English Tap Practice
* Sally Crawford-Shepherd
* PART III: Winning, Participation, and the Negotiation of Meaning
* 10. The International Dancehall Queen Competition: A Discursive Space
for Competing Images of Femininity
* Celena Monteiro
* 11. Congratulations, We Wish You Success: Competition and Community
Participation in Romanian Dance Festivals
* Liz Mellish
* 12. Non-Competitive Body States: Corporeal Freedom and Innovation in
Contemporary Dance
* Nalina Wait and Erin Brannigan
* 13. Reclaiming Competitive Tango: The Rise of Argentina's Campeonato
Mundial
* Juliet McMains
* 14. Dance-off or a Battle for the Future: Dance Reality Shows in
India
* Pallabi Chakravorty
* PART IV: Judging, Spectatorship, and the Values of Movement
* 15. Miss Exotic World: Judging the Neo-Burlesque Movement
* Kaitlyn Regehr
* 16. Rapper Dance Adjudication: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Decision
Making
* Jeremy Carter-Gordon
* 17. Dismantling the Genre: Reality Dance Competitions and Layers of
Affective Intensification
* Elena Benthaus
* 18. Why Are Breaking Battles Judged? The Rise of International
Competitions
* Mary Fogarty
* 19. Not Another Don Quixote! Negotiating China's Position on the
International Ballet Stage
* Rowan McLelland
* PART V: Losing, Failing, and Auto-Critique
* 20. Dancing with the Asian American Stars: Margaret Cho and the
Failure to Win
* Yutian Wong
* 21. Loss of Face: Intimidation, Derision, and Failure in the Hip Hop
Battle
* Sherril Dodds
* 22. Making Play Work: Competition, Spectacle, and Intersubjectivity
in Hybrid Martial Arts
* Janet O'Shea
* 23. You Can't Out-do Black People: Soul Train, Queer Witnessing, and
Pleasurable Competition
* Melissa Blanco Borelli
* PART VI: Hidden Agendas and Unspoken Rules
* 24. Freedom to Compete: Neoliberal Contradictions in Gaga Intensives
* Meghan Quinlan
* 25. We'll Rumble 'em Right: Aggression and Play in the Dance-Offs of
West Side Story
* Ying Zhu and Daniel Belgrad
* 26. Dancing Like a Man: Competition and Gender in the New Orleans
Second Line
* Rachel Carrico
* 27. Man and Money Ready: Challenge Dancing in Antebellum North
America
* April F. Masten
* Afterword: Who is Competing?
* Susan Leigh Foster